Green Cooling

Manchester 235 adds a new dimension to the Casino world by becoming a complete entertainment complex that now includes this new iconic James Martin restaurant.The restaurant features a menu that favours local and speciality dishes and as such the equipment installed within the restaurant called for something special in terms of presentation and delivery.The refrigeration demands of any catering facility are usually dealt with at the back of house where the clients will not normally see any of the equipment or systems.At Manchester 235 this was definitely not the objective as the refrigerated coldroom was to become a key feature within the restaurant. The restaurant required a dry­-ageing room in order to provide high quality beef to reflect the demands of the menu.However the dry-­ageing coldroom needed to be visible from the restaurant with a 2mx1.6m window that would allow the meat to be viewed from the restaurant.

Arguably one of the most straightforward areas where we can reduce energy use is to remove on site duplication of plant.By this we are referring to the situation where valuable waste heat from a cooling system is rejected from a building but at the same time the building is using fossil fuels to provide space heating or hot water.This situation can be found in any application from a manufacturing plant to a hotel/restaurant to a standard office building, all these buildings & their operational activity have a significant heating or hot water demand that can be operating alongside an equally significant rejected cooling load.Basically high value waste heat is rejected from a cooling system within a building or process and at the same time a boiler could be operating in the same building; hence the production of energy is duplicated at very high cost.Historically the specification of heating and hot water systems has been treated as a completely separate area to the specification of air-conditioning or refrigeration equipment.

New analysis published today highlights the extent to which the government’s energy and climate change policies are tempering the impact on household energy bills of global gas prices and network costs.Although global gas prices and network costs have driven household energy bills up in recent years, and are predicted to continue to do so, the Government is pursuing policies aimed at putting a cushion between the price of energy and the bills paid by householders.While some policies are adding to household bills, others lead to reductions, and the net result, based on the most thorough evidence base to date, is that households are on average better off than they would have been in the absence of policies.Today’s householders are paying on average £64 or 5% less for their gas and electricity bills as a result of energy and climate change policies compared to if no policies had existed, and in 2020 the net saving against the do-nothing scenario will reach £166 or 11%.

Lord Stern who released the Stern Review in 2006 has spoken again on climate change:The Government is planning to deliver a new initiative to overhaul the energy efficiency of homes and businesses."The Green Deal is a massive new business opportunity which has the potential to support up to a quarter of a million jobs as part of our third industrial revolution. Insulation installers and the supply chain all stand to benefit from this long overdue energy makeover."

UK Energy Intensive Industries have agreed to commit to stretching energy efficiency improvement targets to 2020 as part of the voluntary Climate Change Agreements (CCA) scheme. This will deliver an overall 11.0% energy efficiency improvement across all industry sectors by 2020 against agreed baselines.The new Climate Change Agreements scheme started yesterday, and shall provide an extension to the Climate Change Levy rebate for energy intensive industries until 2023 in return for meeting energy efficiency improvement targets. The Environment Agency shall administer the new scheme, providing a simplified and streamlined approach to administration for both Government and Industry.A total of 51 industrial sectors including steel, aerospace and farming have signed up across 9,000 sites.The full press release is available on GOV.UK